dracut.sh in dracut, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Fedora 16 and 17, and possibly other products, creates initramfs images with world-readable permissions, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2012-10-09T23:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T20:35:09.839Z

Reserved: 2012-08-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-4453

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-10-09T23:55:05.313

Modified: 2023-02-13T00:26:12.280

Link: CVE-2012-4453

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-09-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-4453 - Bugzilla